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Colocation can offer many cost-efficient benefits, including scalability, improved business continuity, security and compliance. This colocation buyer’s guide includes a checklist of important questions to ask before choosing a provider, along with buying criteria to help you make the best decision for your infrastructure needs.

A DDoS Attack or distributed denial of service attack can happen to any online entity, at any time. By overwhelming your DNS infrastructure, malicious attackers can impair your website, tarnish your company’s reputation, and impact your bottom line. So what are your company’s risks and how can you mitigate them? Read this whitepaper and learn:

• How DDoS preparedness can protect your revenue and retain your customers• How to identify a DDoS attack• What monitoring tools are available to help you mitigate your company’s risks

Every user’s first interaction with your website begins with a series of DNS queries. Poor DNS performance can lead to slow page loads, dissatisfied customers, and lost business. However, you can improve results, contain costs, and make better use of valuable IT personnel by leveraging a cloud-based DNS service. Read this Ebook and Learn:

• The critical role DNS plays in the user experience• The hidden costs, risks, and challenges of managing your own DNS infrastructure• The performance, reliability, and security advantages of a cloud-based DNS service

DDoS attacks are on the rise. Growing in both frequency and sophistication, these distributed denial of service attacks compromise your website’s availability, your brand’s reputation and worse yet, your revenue. The average DDoS outage costs upwards of $882,000 in lost revenue and resources and the downtime can last from several minutes to several hours.

Take a few minutes to read this whitepaper, evaluate the potential risk and the potential cost a DDoS attack will have on your business and gain key tips on how to mitigate both.

Whether your business is establishing brand awareness, driving online sales or executing a digital advertising strategy the fact of the matter is, your website performance matters. In fact, a 1 second delay in page load time results in a 7% loss in conversion, 11% fewer page views and a 16% decrease in customer satisfaction. To maintain uptime and reduce latency, look to your DNS network to establish efficiencies.

Read this whitepaper and learn how the following features benefit your bottom line:

• How to optimize the right equipment• The importance of active monitoring, • How to implement advanced features.

DNS is fundamental to everything that happens on the Internet. From visiting a website. opening a file or sending an email, DNS is the cornerstone to how your customers engage with your online presence. Whether you are a seasoned expert or just beginning to look into how DNS can improve the performance of your businesses’ services, let this quick guide to DNS terminology be your comprehensive one-stop shop.

By understanding DNS you will explore:

• How to increase web performance• How to reduce latency• Retain your loyal customers with a consistent end-user experience.

Fewer than 1 in 6 small business have a disaster contingency plan and yet 57% of desktop users will abandon a site after waiting just 3 seconds for a webpage to load. When it comes to your business, it’s essential to bulletproof your infrastructure, ensure uptime and keep your customers from going to the competition. Read this whitepaper and learn the 5 ways to keeping your network up and your customers happy.

Tips include:

• How prepared your data center is with our Data Center Evaluation Checklist• How failover and load balancing maintains up-time• Why a short TTL and active monitoring will reduce latency

M2M is one of Vodafone’s key strategic growth initiatives, through which it delivers end-to-end M2M solutions including connectivity, integrated terminals, and applications in partnership with more than 50 M2M ecosystem partners.

The success of this strategy seems to be working, as for three consecutive years, Vodafone’s M2M services have been atop Analysys Mason’s independent M2M annual scorecard, which measured capabilities of global telecommunication service providers.

The key value proposition Vodafone offers to customers is the Power of One, which means a single global contract, global SIM, global price, global interface, global support, and global invoice. With Power of One, Vodafone can simplify planning, deployment, and management of M2M solutions for global customers.

Critical telecommunications database could be transitioned under FCC process

Everybody from consumers, to emergency response, law enforcement and national security agencies, to state regulators, to carriers themselves rely on a routing database established as a result of the Telecom Act of 1996. This database, called the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC), is a critical part of our national infrastructure.

A poorly planned transition of the data and technology in the NPAC could result in the service failing, consumers not being able to keep their phone numbers when they change service providers, and service providers not able to compete on a level playing field.

This Strategic Solutions Series examines some of the specific concerns with the NPAC vendor selection process and what the potential transition has to do with neutrality, transparency, cost, transition, and timeline.

GetWireless is a value-added distributor of cellular-based solutions. It prides itself on its experience, integrity, and knowledge, all of which the company says enables it to provide an unmatched level of customer service.

The company is heavily invested in the mobility and industrial marketplaces. Within the mobility space, their cellular data solutions address applications such as police car connectivity, fleet tracking, school bus safety, and taxi payment systems. Within the industrial space, their cellular data solutions address applications such as smart grid connectivity, automated meter reading, digital sign control, and commercial lighting.

Running a successful contact center is challenging, to say the least. What can you do to keep customers satisfied? How do you hold on to your best agents? And of course, what can be done to increase revenue?

In a recent study testing noise canceling headsets, VXi headsets produced a significant improvement to each of these challenges. Overall average hold time fell 17 percent, while revenue per call showed a net increase of 21 percent compared to the control group.

VXi headsets are designed and engineered to deliver the best possible clarity and intelligibility, so every word on both sides of the conversation is both heard and understood.

Enables Vodafone to Be More ResponsiveThe Vodafone Global M2M Platform enables users to quickly and efficiently change rate plans, provision SIMs, run reports, change settings, perform diagnostic queries, and more. It includes such features as location-based services, device management and a business rules engine, and Vodafone continues to add new features to expand on the platform’s core premise.

The key benefit to Vodafone’s Global M2M Platform is operational efficiency. Because they provide a global roaming SIM, with a single contract, single help desk, single network interface and single Web Interface and API set, they can allow a very small organization to operationally manage deploying devices to over 190 countries and provinces. It’s the build-once, deploy-anywhere model.

Smart Metering Systems PLC is the leading independent provider of connections, metering, and automated meter reading services to industry and major utility companies in the U.K. In 2009, SMS made a strategic decision to transform its business from a customer service organization to a customer experience business. At the same time SMS introduced smart meter technology and data management services to its customer base, providing a valuable additional service at a very competitive price point.

In this Strategic Solutions Series, you will hear their success story.

Lively, a company which offers a solution to aide senior citizens to live independently, offers customers sensors which track movement and an emergency alert watch. The sensors measure movement and can be placed on a multitude of surfaces to provide remote parties visibility into the daily activities of the senior citizens. Additionally, the emergency alert watch deliv&#172;ers superior functionality in a more attractive form factor, which increases the use of such devices

Ensuring these solutions work and that the connectivity to support them is affordable, available, and reliable is of key importance. That’s why Lively chose Vodafone’s machine-to-machine technology.

Altair Semiconductor, a chipset company that has been in business for a decade, offers LTE-only chipsets. This year the company aims to disrupt the M2M/IoT space with the introduction of an optimized LTE-only chipset. This second-generation LTE chipset, called FourGee-3800/6300, sets the industry benchmark for perfor&#172;mance/cost and power consumption.

Customer experience is a hot topic these days. But ensuring a positive customer experience that fuses with the goals of your organization is about more than just pledging to be more customer focused. It requires employing processes and systems that enable your customer support staff to actually understand the needs of customers rather than just addressing their needs in a one-off fashion, and to be able to respond to those requirements in the most effective way possible.

You’ve invested in the best leadership, technologies, and human capital sourcing and development partners available to formulate and perfect the secret sauce that makes your enterprise exceptional and successful. Now you can gain even more value from these investments by consistently communicating your message and measuring the performance across your organization via contact center performance management.

Businesses that don’t already have efforts in place to address the Telephone Consumer Protection Act would do well to begin exploring their options on this front as soon as possible. And, given various legal interpretations of TCPA to date, and the risk of very large statutory damages, taking a conservative approach to TCPA is probably the best course of action.

TeamSupport is a fully hosted cloud-based help desk solution that solves a fundamental problem that most support systems don’t: helping businesses better understand their customers.

Robert C. Johnson, president and CEO of TeamSupport LLC, explains it does that by delivering a suite of tools that provide insights into how customers interact with your company. CUSTOMER magazine recently interviewed Johnson to learn more.

“It is imperative for marketers to stand apart from the holiday noise by moving from monologue to a true, personalized dialogue. The best way to have a real dialogue with your customer is to leverage your own data. Our clients combine Neustar’s extensive data assets with their own data to identify, verify, and engage their customers in a personal and unique way, building deeper and more profitable relationships, both offline in call centers and in the digital ecosystem.” - Henry Tam, a managing director at Neustar.